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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Tuesday, Sept. 10, 1985
Students design, build lab
By Bengt Ljung Of the Kansan staff
Eleven mechanical engineering students have saved the University some money in return for gaining knowledge of real-world engine design.
On the last day of the summer session, the students completed a new internal combustion engine laboratory for the department of mechanical engineering.
"I don't know how much we have saved the University, but the students have put a man-year of effort into it," Donald Gyorog, chairman of the department and adviser to the project, said yesterday.
"The lab has only cost the University between $4,000 and $5,000," he said. "We have also received about $6,000 in endowments."
Paul Theoennes, Leawood senior and designer of the engine's fuel system, said, "It's fun to see the practical applications of my designs. I haven't been able to create something with my own knowledge in any other class."
Seven students in Mechanical Engineering Problems, M4 60, worked on the engine last spring and four students finished it this summer.
Themnes said the teamwork in the group was another exciting aspect of their work.
"When two of us had a down time, waiting for parts, we would help the two others," he said. "We all gave each other feedback and helped out."
Thouneens' fuel system alone would have cost the University $2,500 to buy, he said. His design cost only $50 or $60.
A couple of students started to
work on Gyorog's idea of a laboratory last fall, Gyorog said, but it did not really get underway until the spring semester.
"We had no money and no support when we started, but we knew we could do it," Gyorog said. "We had the blueprint for the total system."
He said the students would have a good background in testing engines when they entered the competitive automotive industry.
"We have had super support from the industry." Gyorog said. "We wrote proposals explaining our goals, and they were very generous. We hope for continuing contributions from GM for a robotics and automation system."
"I am very proud over the students' accomplishment," Gyorog said. "And this will have lasting significance for the school."
K.C. man arrested for sex crime
From Kansan wires
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City boat dealer was arrested yesterday near Key Largo, Fla., on a fugitive warrant charging him with sexual assault involving a 14-year-old Belton, Mo, boy, the FBI said.
Robert B. Davenport, special agent in charge of the Kansas City FBI
office, said Larry Michael Triska, 37, was arrested by FBI agents and Monroe County, Fla., sheriff's deputies while in a rental car on U.S. 12
Triska was being held in federal custody at the North Dade Correctional Facility pending an appearance before a U.S. magistrate judge today.
Triska was accompanied by another 14-year-old who had been
reported missing by his parents Aug. 5 in Belton.
The FBI agent said Triska was charged with first-degree deviate sexual assault in Cass County, Mo. in August. Yesterday, FBI agents in Kansas City filed a complaint before U.S. Magistrate Richard H. Ralston charging Triska with unlawfully fleeing Missouri to avoid arrest and prosecution on the state charge.
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